Intel India trains 9500 people in AI across 90 organizations

As a part of Intel India’s plan to democratize artificial intelligence (AI), it has so far trained 9500 people in AI including developers, students and professors across 90 organisation.ETCIO | October 09, 2017, 16:26 IST

Bangalore: Intel India today said that company has trained 9500 developers, students and professors across 90 organizations in artificial intelligence (AI), as part of it effort to democratize this new emerging technology in India.

Early in April this year, company during the India AI Day initiative had announced its plan to train around 15000 people in AI.

“In April this year, we made a commitment at the India AI Day, to democratize AI in the country by training 15,000 developers, and engage with not just businesses, but also the government and academia to enable the adoption of this increasingly talked about technology,” said Prakash Mallya, Managing Director – Sales & Marketing Group, Intel India.

“Today, after six months, we can proudly say that we have worked with 9500 developers, students, and professors, across 90 organizations to ensure that India is not only AI ready but already delivering results,” added Mallya, during Intel India’s Cloud Developer Day event held here which over 400 developers attended.

As a part of company’s commitment to boost adoption of AI here, Intel India collaborated with 40 academic institutions that are using the technology for scientific research, and 50 public and private organizations across e-commerce, healthcare, technology, defence, and banking & financial services that are reducing AI entry barriers for developers, data scientists, and students through developer focused events, and Code Modernization workshops.

Raghavendra HM, Data Scientist at DataLore Labs, a Bangalore based Predictive Modeling and Natural Language Processing company, elaborated on how their company delivers the stock price prediction algorithm, using TensorFlow and Intel Nervana DevCloud powered by the Intel Xeon Scalable Processors.

Dr. KV Subramaniam, Professor, Cloud Computing and Big Data Center, and Savitha Murthy, Assistant Professor, PES University, delved into how the institute is using the Intel Nervana DevCloud and the NxtGen cloud offering to run deep learning algorithms. Tarun Dua, CEO and Founder at E2E Networks highlighted how the company is working with Intel India to enable the cloud agnostic future of AI, for its customers.

The Cloud Developer Day also included a hands-on workshop for the developers sharing general principles of deep learning, a walkthrough NxtGen’s Developer Cloud, and provided them with an opportunity to familiarize themselves with Intel Optimized Caffe and TensorFlow.

In September this year, Intel announced the Intel Nervana DevCloud, a cloud-hosted hardware and software platform for developers, data scientists, researchers, academics and startups to learn, sandbox and accelerate development of AI solutions with free compute cloud access powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors. By providing compute resources for machine learning and deep learning training and inference compute needs, Intel is enabling users to start exploring AI innovation without making their own investments in compute resources up front.

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